Printing Doctor Blades

Our Printing Doctor Blades are available in different widths and thicknesses to suit the specific requirements of the clients. These Printing Doctor Blades are specially designed for Rotogravure, Flexographic & Pad printing. Printing Doctor Blades are manufactured from highly refined strip steel and are finished with an extra smooth edge ensuring that the blades perform a clean wiping action on the gravure cylinder / anilox roller immediately on start-up. Our Printing Doctor Blades are used for Rotogravure & Flexographic printing, as well as for coating applications. Printing Doctor Blades are wiping blades used to wipe excess ink in the Flexographic or Rotogravure Printing and coating processes. It is an essential part of the process for achieving top quality printing.
Further, our Printing Doctor Blades increase productivity, improve quality and reduce wastage or rejections.  Printing Doctor Blades can be used to print coat paper, films such as PET, BOPP, PVC etc., and foils used in packaging, labeling, publication and corrugation. Lamella edge is the most commonly used edge configuration preferred by customers. The unique shape of the lamella ensures that a constant contact area with the cylinder is maintained throughout the life of the blade, resulting in uniform printing during the print run. Thus, no re-sharpening is required. The wiping action of our Printing Doctor Blades can directly affect the quality of printing, coating, etc. Our Printing Doctor Blades provide high quality, error-free & cost effective printing & coating operation.
Advantages :

• Approx. six time better life as compared to conventional blade.
• Accurate flatness, exact straightness
• High wear resistance
• The contact area remains constant throughout the entire life of the doctor blade
• No change in the tonal values during print run
• Minimal doctor blade pressure reduces chrome destruction and extends cylinder life
• Less wastage and rejections
• No running-in time required
• No doctor blade grinding equipment required
• Less downtime during blade change thus reducing expensive equipment downtime & wastage of ink, substrate & time
• Constant conditions for proofing (no tonal variations and easy colour matching)

Applications : Rotogravure and Flexographic printing with solvent based inks and coatings
Specifications :

• Steel High quality precision carbon & stainless strip steel
• Packing Rolls in boxes
• Roll size Length of doctor blade in continuous coils of 50 meter 100 meter
• Blade Width : 10 - 80 mm
• Blade Thickness : 0.15 mm-0.20 mm (Other thicknesses on demand)
• Lamella 50-125 µm +-5 µm, on request special lamella can be provided)